Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison'
Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison'
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Technology @lemmy.world Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL in the 1980s, a woman bought a ring at a car boot sale for £10 & proceeded to wear it regularly under the assumption it was a piece of costume jewelry. It later appraised and sold for £650k.
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Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL that the Indian subcontinent used to be the largest economy of any region in the world between the 1st and 18th centuries
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL that Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua were briefly united in the 1800s as the Federal Republic of Central America
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL Playboy asked Richard Thompson and other musicians to compile a list of the best songs of the millennium to celebrate the year 2000. Thompson maliciously complied and included 700 year old songs.
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL that in 1917, under orders from Surgeon General Rupert Blue, cigarettes were included in the ration kits for every fighting man in the US Military.
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL that in 1975, after Gillette introduced a two-blade cartridge razor, Saturday Night Live aired a fake commercial for a three-blade razor. Gillette introduced one in 1998. In 2004, a satirical ...
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL a Canadian town Tisdale used to have a motto "The land of rape and honey" which was changed to "Opportunity grows here" in 2016.
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL that the French national oil company ELF, lost around $150 million to a scam artist, whose "oil sniffing" machine turned out to be a regular photocopier
Technology @lemmy.world Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL: that during a dissociative fugue, a person can suddenly travel far from home, assume a new identity, and live for days or even weeks without any memory of their former life.
politics @lemmy.world DOGE cuts watchdogs investigating self-driving Teslas: Report
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL About the Smoot-Hawley Act, Which was the 20% Across the Board Tariff That Deepened the Great Depression and Resulted in the Largest Senate Seat Loss in History
Science Memes @mander.xyz Virgin Physicists
Funny @sh.itjust.works The chase
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL In 1983, it was announced on radio that the hard to find Cabbage Patch Dolls would be dropped from a plane at County Stadium. People just needed to hold up a catcher’s mitt and their credit ca...
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL that Uzbekistan has a high-speed (>124 mph/200 km/h for upgraded tracks and >155 mph/250 km/h for new tracks) rail network bigger than US, 370 mi/600 km vs 49.9 mi/80.3 km
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL that Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, left Facebook in 2017 over a dispute on WhatsApp monetization and claims he was coached to mislead EU regulators about data merging. In 2018, he suppo...
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL research has found that swearing can reduce the perception of pain (providing a measurable analgesic effect) by as much as 33%. Because swearing is processed in so many different parts of the ...
Today I Learned @lemmy.world TIL a 2023 study examined the cognitive ability scores of nearly 400,000 Americans between 2006-2018 and found that over that 13-year period, Americans' IQ scores had dropped in three out of the f...
Steps forward are few and far between these days, I'll take what I can get.